Clarification and some notes on yesterday's "CFML is dying. Let's drop it off at Dignitas" article

G'day:
I added a coupla things to the "CFML is dying. Let's drop it off at Dignitas" article this morning, after some discussions and more thoughts over night. I'll just summarise them here.

@cfmlNotifier now sending updates from the CFML Bloggers RSS feed

G'day:
Well the title pretty much sums this up: the @CfmlNotifier Twitter feed is now sending out status updates when coldfusionBloggers receives new articles:

(Adam Cameron's CFML Blog): @cfmlNotifier now sending updates from the CFML Bloggers RSS feed (http://t.co/RDkdWPsrIf)
— CfmlNotifier (@CfmlNotifier) March 6, 2014

It should be polling every hour, once I set it up to do so.

That's it.

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Adam

CFML is dying. Let's drop it off at Dignitas

G'day:
Yes. It's another "CFML is dying" article. We haven't had one for a while. Note that this is not "ColdFusion is dying", this is CFML in general.

TBH: the headline is slightly tongue-in-cheek, and designed to garner outraged click-throughs whilst the Daily Mail readers amongst us search for the "Comment on this article" button so they can display their mouth-froth to everyone.

This article actually isn't about CFML. And that's the point.

ColdFusion 11: Thank-you Carl, Mary-Jo, many other community members and indeed Rupesh

G'day:
Integers. We "won". Adobe have reversed their position, and they're gonna fix the isValid("integer") bug:

• Rupesh Kumar

  9:18:35 PM GMT+00:00 Mar 4, 2014

  Wow - it is indeed incredible. Thanks Carl for digging this out. We will fix it - we would have a application setting which would bring back the old behavior in case some one needs it. I hope nobody needs to use this flag. 
  
  We will also roll it out in an update for the public beta and we would need your help in verifying and making sure that applications don't break. 
  
  Thank you everyone for raising this and providing this feedback!

Good stuff, Rupesh.

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Adam

ColdFusion: Of integers and indolence

G'day:

Yes, OK, I'm still banging on about integers and ColdFusion bugs. It's my blog and I can talk about whatever I like! ;-)

You might be aware that I am particularly nonplussed about Adobe's reaction to bug 3712010, which relates to integer validation via isValid(), and how it is broken.

I started by just being mildly annoyed by how ColdFusion can make such a pig's ear of something that should be simply. But the more Adobe (or, hey, let's say it: Rupesh from Adobe) squirms about the place and tries to justify why they shouldn't just bloody fix a fairly obvious bug, the more annoyed I am getting about this. I dislike having my intelligence insulted, and I also dislike the collective intelligence of the ColdFusion community insulted. Especially by someone who very clearly should not be in the business of insulting anyone's intelligence.

It's all getting a bit stupid, but one of the comments posted today on this caught my eye and made my blood boil just that bit more. I've asked Carl if I can reproduce his comment, and he has said it's fine. So here it is. I've dollied it up for formatting, but it's othewise unchanged.

Your ColdFusion bugs - visualised

G'day:
I'm stealing some of Ray's code here, and making it more general and exposing it for all to use.

ColdFusion 11: Adobe have finally started deprecating / obsoleting stuff in ColdFusion

G'day:
This article is basically gonna be a reproduction of something in the ColdFusion 11 docs, just FYI. I found an xls file buried in the docs that lists some stuff that's newly deprecated in CF11, and even some stuff they've finally obsoleted.